Quotations

Subject: Re: Quotations Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:52 pm

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Subject: Re: Quotations Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:57 pm

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato

Subject: Re: Quotations Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:57 am

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

Subject: Re: Quotations Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:25 pm

"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

Subject: Re: Quotations Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:46 pm

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin Franklin

Subject: Re: Quotations Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:58 pm

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Subject: Re: Quotations Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:55 pm

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Subject: Re: Quotations Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:48 am

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham

Subject: Re: Quotations Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:03 pm

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

Subject: Re: Quotations Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:02 pm

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Subject: Re: Quotations Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:44 pm

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Subject: Re: Quotations Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:09 pm

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy

Subject: Re: Quotations Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:05 pm

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
J.B. Priestly

Subject: Re: Quotations Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:44 pm

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Subject: Re: Quotations Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:33 pm

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katherine Hepburn

Subject: Re: Quotations Sun Oct 10, 2010 2:15 am

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
Woody Allen

Subject: Re: Quotations Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:21 pm

A crying baby is the best form of birth control.
Carole Tabron

Subject: Re: Quotations Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:42 pm

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subject: Re: Quotations Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:09 pm

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Subject: Re: Quotations Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:37 pm

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
Alfred North Whitehead

Subject: Re: Quotations Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:05 pm

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne

Subject: Re: Quotations Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:05 am

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher

Subject: Re: Quotations Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:47 pm

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
William J. Clinton, 1997

Subject: Re: Quotations Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:58 pm

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Subject: Re: Quotations Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:27 pm

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Havelock Ellis